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“Your eyes make me shy”

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“words carry colors and sounds into the flesh”

Anaïs Nin book Delta of Venus

Source: Delta of Venus

“I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.”

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“I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.”

Anaïs Nin book House of Incest

Source: House of Incest

“Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death”

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Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.”

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Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.”

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“Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.”

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Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife.”

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Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.”

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“The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.”

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Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944

“How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?… I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space.”

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Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.”

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Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!”

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“It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.”

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Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.”

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Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.”

Anaïs Nin book Under a Glass Bell

Source: Under a Glass Bell